Fonds Ella Maillart
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Maillart, Ella Katherine, 1903-1997
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Ella Maillart was born to a wealthy fur trader from Geneva. Her father was Swiss and her mother was Danish. At the age of 20 she and a friend sailed from Cannes to Corsica, then to Sardinia, Sicily and Greece. She competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics as a sailor in the Olympic monotype competition where she was the only female competitor and finished ninth out of 17. From the 1930s onwards she spent years exploring Muslim republics of the USSR, as well as other parts of Asia, and published a ri...
